Below are the links to the best available online scanners that search for spyware and viruses on a computer the scanners are run from. They use ActiveXs/plugins in order to access the computer’s file system, so they need to be allowed to be loaded by the computer firewall and/or by other antispyware/antivirus program running on [...]
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In this article, I have tried to summarise the tips and help for wireless network setup trobleshootings. This is by no means the complete list because the certain wireless adapters and routers sometimes require specialist approach. A lot also depends on the wireless network configuration, operation system settings, hardware and many other little bits and [...]
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Imagine that you have a situation: you’ve been installing and uninstalling some programs for a week or so, was switching your computer on and off, doing some other stuff but then you need to read a DVD and the computer does not recognise it. And I mean not just doesn’t recognise a DVD disk but [...]
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What did you do in the evening (UK time) of 17th of February 2009? I remember there has been a day that week when my Internet worked very slowly. That probably was on 17th of February because on that day a little Internet pandemonium has happened.
As described in the article on Renesys Blog, a routing [...]
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Antivirus, antispyware and firewall software are essential for the modern computers connected to the Internet. Despite the fact that it has been said many times, I’d like to reiterate that every computers should have some sort of protection against viruses and spyware because presence of these nasty things on the computer leads to the personal [...]
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